Arjun Srivathsa is a Research Associate with the WCS India Program. He studies dholes, leopards, tigers and other mammals in the Malenad landscape, and his research interests include wildlife behaviour and ecology among others. He was honoured with Sanctuary Asia’s Young Naturalist Award for 2014.

Dr. Krithi K. Karanth has been working for wildlife conservation in India for the past 15 years. Declared a National Geograpic Society Explorer in 2012, she is currently an Associate Conservation Scientist with WCS New York. Her research encompasses a broad range of issues examining human dimensions of wildlife conservation.

Sheren Shrestha is a communications specialist with the WCS India Program. His interests lie in the application of communications and outreach in wildlife conservation, to spread awareness among various target groups.

Julia C. Teale is a postgraduate researcher based at the MacLeodLab at the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, in Scotland. She is particularly interested in memory—why do we find some things very easy to forget whilst other things seem to stick in our minds? How does the brain organize our memories efficiently? How do our memories change over our lifetimes and into older age? Since Teale was little she has always asked a lot of questions, and maybe that is why she now does research! When she is not working, she likes to go walking with her dog Indy in the countryside.

Akira R. O’Connor is a lecturer in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, in Scotland. He is interested in how our memories work and gets people to do memory tests so that he can understand this better. Sometimes people do these tests online, sometimes in his laboratory and sometimes in brain-scanners at the local hospital. When he's not working, he loves running, reading (fiction and non-fiction) and watching his favorite soccer team: Queens Park Rangers.

Every week, hockey-playing science writer John Horgan takes a puckish, provocative look at breaking science. A teacher at Stevens Institute of Technology, Horgan is the author of four books, including The End of Science (Addison Wesley, 1996) and The End of War (McSweeney's, 2012).Follow on Twitter @Horganism.

Alex Wild is Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books and media outlets.Follow on Twitter @myrmecos.

Samantha Dempsey is an experience designer at Mad*Pow and a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. As a fellow at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation, she conducted research into visualizing patient narratives and created tools to help clinicians better communicate with patients. Her background in illustration flavors her approach to experience design as she incorporates narrative flow, visual storytelling, and sequential art into her work.Follow on Twitter @samanthademps.

Every week, hockey-playing science writer John Horgan takes a puckish, provocative look at breaking science. A teacher at Stevens Institute of Technology, Horgan is the author of four books, including The End of Science (Addison Wesley, 1996) and The End of War (McSweeney's, 2012).Follow on Twitter @Horganism.

Every week, hockey-playing science writer John Horgan takes a puckish, provocative look at breaking science. A teacher at Stevens Institute of Technology, Horgan is the author of four books, including The End of Science (Addison Wesley, 1996) and The End of War (McSweeney's, 2012).Follow on Twitter @Horganism.

Alex Wild is Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books and media outlets.Follow on Twitter @myrmecos.

Kevin Bonham is a Curriculum Fellow in the Microbiology and Immunobiology department at Harvard Medical school. He received his PhD from Harvard, where he studied how the cells of the immune system detect the presence of infectious microbes. Find him on Google+, Reddit.Follow on Twitter @Kevbonham.

Kevin Bonham is a Curriculum Fellow in the Microbiology and Immunobiology department at Harvard Medical school. He received his PhD from Harvard, where he studied how the cells of the immune system detect the presence of infectious microbes. Find him on Google+, Reddit.Follow on Twitter @Kevbonham.

Kalliopi Monoyios is an independent science illustrator. She has illustrated several popular science books including Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish and The Universe Within, and Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True. Find her at www.kalliopimonoyios.com.
Follow on Twitter @symbiartic.

Darren Naish is a science writer, technical editor and palaeozoologist (affiliated with the University of Southampton, UK). He mostly works on Cretaceous dinosaurs and pterosaurs but has an avid interest in all things tetrapod. His publications can be downloaded at darrennaish.wordpress.com. He has been blogging at Tetrapod Zoology since 2006. Check out the Tet Zoo podcast at tetzoo.com!Follow on Twitter @TetZoo.

Varun Mehra is currently a graduate student in the Technology and Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, he was a Technology-to-Market Analyst with the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy, working with academic institutions and small companies to help commercialize energy technologies. While at ARPA-E, he also helped to launch the first inter-agency partnership with the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, aimed at educating early-stage technology developers on business model development.

Sebastien Lounis recently completed his Ph.D. in Applied Science & Technology at UC Berkeley. While at Berkeley, he was co-president of the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC), an organization connecting over 3,000 students, faculty and industry members around programing and events related to energy innovation. He also served as editor in chief of the Berkeley Science Review, where he led a team of writers, editors and designers telling stories about research coming out of the university. Sebastien also holds a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently a member of the Cyclotron Road team, heading up its work in Communications and Partnerships.